The Performance of Visual Perceptual Tasks in Patients with Schizotypal Personality DisorderстатьяИсследовательская статья
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Аннотация:Background. !e most signi"cant features for clinical diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) are cognitive-perceptual and disorganized symptoms. Experimental study of visual perceptual processes is important to elucidate the psychological mechanisms of cognitive-perceptual impairment in SPD.Objective. To research the performance of visual perceptual tasks in SPD.Design. Series I and II presented the subjects with visual perceptual tasks with di#erent types of instructions (vague, verbal, or visual perceptual cues). !e Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-R) was also administered. !e participants were 39 SPD patients, 36 obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) patients (F.21.8, F.60.5 in ICD-10, respectively), and 102 healthy controls.Results. SPD patients had a signi"cantly lower number of correct answers in conditions of vague instruction and verbal cues in Series I of a visual-perceptual task in comparison with healthy subjects (р≤0.01). With visual perceptual cues in Series II, patients with SPD had the same number of correct answers as controls, whereas OCPD patients had the same number of correct answers as controls with verbal cues in Series I. SPD patients had signi"cantly lower scores in most verbal and nonverbal WAIS-R subtests in comparison with controls. SPD patients di#ered from OCPD patients in that they had lower scores in the “Information” (p≤0.05) and “Comprehension” (p≤0.05) subtests.Conclusion. With visual-perceptual cues, SPD patients were able to achieve normative results in the performance of visual-perceptual tasks, whereas patients with OCPD demonstrated lower productivity. In SPD patients, the basic impairments were associated with di%culties in inhibition of peculiar responses, stability of a subjective manner of performance and inability to revise it, low orientation to the model, and slipping into subjective associatiation with stimuli.